A companion to English Renaissance literature and culture [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Michael Hattaway

• Pubblicazione: Oxford, UK ; ; Malden, MA, : Blackwell, 2000
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (788 p.)
• Disciplina: 820.9003
• Soggetto topico: English literature - Early modern, 1500-1700 - History and criticism; Renaissance - England
• Soggetto geografico: England Civilization 16th century Handbooks, manuals, etc; England Civilization 17th century Handbooks, manuals, etc
• Altri autori: HattawayMichael
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: ENGLISH RENAISSANCE LITERATURE AND CULTURE; Contents; List of Illustrations; Notes on Contributors; PART ONE Introduction; 1 Introduction; PART TWO Contexts and Perspectives,1500-1650; 2 Early Tudor Humanism; 3 English Reformations; 4 Platonism, Stoicism, Scepticism and Classical Imitation; 5 History; 6 The English Language of the Early Modern Period; 7 Publication: Print and Manuscript; 8 Literacy and Education; 9 Court and Coterie Culture; 10 The Literature of the Metropolis; 11 Playhouses and the Role of Drama; 12 The Writing of Travel; PART THREE Readings; 13 Translations of the Bible ; 14 A Reading of Wyatt's 'Who so list to hunt'15 Courtship and Counsel: John Lyly's Campaspe; 16 Spenser's Faerie Queene, Book V: Poetry, Politics and Justice; 17 Kyd's Spanish Tragedy; 18 Donne's 'Nineteenth Elegy'; 19 Lanyer's 'The Description of Cookham' and Jonson's 'To Penshurst'; 20 Bacon's 'Of Simulation and Dissimulation'; 21 Lancelot Andrewes's Good Friday 1604 Sermon; 22 Herbert's 'The Elixir'; 23 The Heart of the Labyrinth: Mary Wroth's Pamphilia to Amphilanthus; 24 The Critical Elegy; 25 Ford, Mary Wroth, and the Final Scene of ' Tis Pity She's a Whore; PART FOUR Genres and Modes ; 43 Tales of the City: The Comedies of Ben Jonson and Thomas Middleton44 'Tied / To Rules of Flattery?': Court Drama and the Masque; 45 Jacobean Tragedy; 46 Caroline Theatre; 47 Scientific Writing; 48 Prose Fiction; 49 Theological Writings and Religious Polemic; 50 The English Renaissance Essay: Churchyard, Cornwallis, Florio's Montaigne and Bacon; 51 Diaries; 52 Letters; PART FIVE Issues and Debates; 53 Rhetoric; 54 Identity; 55 Was There a Renaissance Feminism?; 56 The Debate on Witchcraft; 57 Reconstructing the Past: History, Historicism, Histories; 58 Sexuality: A Renaissance Category? ; 59 Race: A Renaissance Category?60 Writing the Nation; Index; Plates
• Sommario/riassunto: This is a one volume, up-to-date collection of more than fifty wide-ranging essays which will inspire and guide students of the Renaissance and provide course leaders with a substantial and helpful frame of reference. Provides new perspectives on established texts. Orientates the new student, while providing advanced students with current and new directions. Pioneered by leading scholars. Occupies a unique niche in Renaissance studies. Illustrated with 12 single-page black and white prints.
• Titolo autorizzato: A companion to English Renaissance literature and culture
• ISBN: 1-78268-460-3; 1-4051-6528-6; 1-281-31254-1; 9786611312541; 0-470-99873-3; 0-470-99872-5
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 996201833703316
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. di Salerno
• Serie: Blackwell companions to literature and culture ; ; 8.